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WHO urges the world to fight virus

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What I'd like to see is China held accountable for starting this crap. This, SARS before... Who knows what other pandemics they've caused in history. From what I've read there's a few too.

How are they held accountable? That's another matter. Maybe firstly bring told to clean up their act for starters.

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“figures showing there are now about 17 times as many new infections outside China as in it.”

Read like a propaganda price for the CPC. Nothing to do with China being a member and huge contributor to The Who per chance?

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Everyone here has a choice. You can choose to listen to the world's public health experts, like those at the WHO, or, you can choose to listen to random social media posters who claim to know better than the experts.

This is a global issue, but the outcome will be determined by the actions of individuals, collectively. As an individual, the ask is not big. Practice good hand hygiene, avoid touching your face and limit social interaction (especially in confined spaces). And, don't panic and feed the fire by stripping shop shelves bare for no good reason at all. All these things are simple, but not easy. They require behavior change and mindfulness. 

I'd rather take these actions now, than end up in a Wuhan situation and being locked down for months.

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Who urges the world to fight the virus?

Mkay, urge on. (Or governments give the citizens test kits)

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“This is not a drill. This is not the time for giving up. This is not a time of for excuses. This is a time for pulling out all the stops,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said

and...from social media

You can choose to listen to the world's public health experts, like those at the WHO, or, you can choose to listen to random social media posters who claim to know better than the experts.

Well it wasn't that long ago that the same WHO, was telling everybody there was no emergency, keep your borders open, prompting many countries to act unilaterally, and coincidentally those countries faired best compared to countries that listened to the WHO.

Where was the WHO when the Diamond Princess was incubating the virus en masse? Where was the WHO when South Korea's cult was gathering for a infect feast? Where was the WHO when Italy was having a 'kiss a Chinese campaign'?

The WHO was supposedly trying to avoid a repeat of the Congo Ebola economic damage from hrash border controls. Well now it has learnt, no border controls means the damage is global, and much more severe.

I take the WHO's statement quored above as:

This is not an apology for our atrocious mistakes;

This is not the time to forget about Swiss private school fees for WHO staff;

This is not a time to forget about the WHO's plush office in Geneva, or the villas for WHO execs;

This is not a time for negotiating WHO budget and contributions;

This is a time to make the WHO great again with CCP money.

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WHO: Could you first just say the "P" word? Just once, in a muffled voice might do the trick.

We already know it's serious, could continue to spread, governments should take action, that we should wear a mask(how?) use hand sanitizer (how?), Avoid crowded places (how in Japan?) Etc, etc.

We need you to say the "P" word, even if just once, so that everybody then knows where we stand, officially. Please show some leadership and take the initiative from the top, WHO.

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China got 20 thousand people under coronavirus treatment right now, they had 75 Chinese citizens from over seas to test positive,and they have 545 other citizens in voluntary quarantine, the world could help by giving Chinese Healthcare a break, by sending support staff to China

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What's worrying is that the rate of re-infections seems to be on the uptick. If that is the case, then quarantines will only work so long before hot spots flare up. The best thing is to move to Montana.

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YrralToday  10:53 am JST

the world could help by giving Chinese Healthcare a break, by sending support staff to China

OK, I give up. Which country is presently so unaffected by COVID19 (which emanated from China) that they can afford to send their health care support staff to China?

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Clamp down on those miscreants who bombard social media with outlandish theories and misinformation, for starters.

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I am quite a cold head minded guy and I trust science.

The numbers reported anywhere are just trends as dependent of capability to test.

X country with more than Y country has no meaning at this point in time.

There are 2 attitudes expected from any civilized person:

1) protect yourself: wash your hands after having be in public area and when you arrive home.

2) protect others in staying home if you feel sick, contact a doctor for advice and if coughing/sneezing while going to see a doctor wear a mask or use a protecting tissue when coughing/sneezing.

Simple effective rules if applied widely.

3) and most important one, stop reading unproved, conspiration social media crap, you are an adult expected to be able to screen the fake and the science. But that require a bit of an effort.

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